Dydone seu Elyssa Cyria Carthaginen sut regina · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Dydone seu Elyssa Cyria Carthaginen sut regina
Subject: Dido; Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; Vengeance; Elissa
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: North Africa; Carthage
Description: This engraving depicts Elissa, who was later called Dido, standing at the foreground of the engraving watching people build the city of Carthage. She is illustrated with her hands pointing at the city and men as she over sees the construction. Boccaccio explains that Dido had stolen her brother’s treasure in retaliation of him murdering her husband. After fleeing with her brother’s treasure, she made her way to Africa where she established Carthage and became queen of the city.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:18163
Language: lat
Source Name: Iohannis Bocacij in librum de claris mulieribus
Parent Collection: 1487 Leuven; 1487 Leuven
Image: mta_18163_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Dido; Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; Vengeance; Elissa